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Global Warming is a big problem in today¡¦s society. Global Warming also known as the Greenhouse effect is a problem everyone will soon have to face. The people of the younger generations should be educated about what Global Warming is and that it is caused due to the way people are treating the environment.

We are now entering the Greenhouse century as we know it. Planet Earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, and life on earth has existed for more than 3.5 billion years. Humans have been on earth for 2 to 3 million years. It is only been in the past 200 years people have been affected by global warming. The last 40 years have been the most damaging.

As the impacts of human influences have grown, so have the risks associated with those impacts. New technologies carry increasing risks, and the scale, frequency, and impacts of disaster caused or influenced by human activity are growing tremendously. The risks to the Earth¡¦s natural systems are becoming significantly concerning.

The world¡¦s population, currently 5.2 billion has grown from about 3 billion in 1960, and around 2 billion in 1925. Today it increased by almost 90 million each year, and is likely to reach 10 billion by 2025(Corson 4). The reason we currently have an atmosphere crisis is because of human impact on the gases which make up our atmosphere. Our atmosphere, which is made up of four distinct layers blankets our planet and protects up in many way. One way it protects us if from the harmful rays the sun radiates on our planet. Each layer differs from the others in temperature, density, composition and in the way it absorbs radiation from the sun. The atmosphere itself is some 300 miles thick. The first layer is the Troposphere. It is the lowest layer and extends higher than any airplane can travel, about 6.8 miles. Air in this layer is heated by the earth itself and for every 1000 feet the temperature drops 3.5 „a F. When it reaches the top of this...

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Kaitlin Carpenter
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GlobalWarming
Through the four different ideas brought up through this debate project I believe in the stance that something should be done to our ways of living because we know globalwarming is human caused. I have found that a crucial article in my beliefs was found through Donald R. Prothero’s (2012) research. At first when this project began, I was unsure on my beliefs about globalwarming but my stance is now clear after this moving article. It has a few main topics that were crucial elements to the decline in our atmospheres ozone layer increases of emissions of greenhouse gasses through carbon dioxide has resulted in glaciers melting. Plants that can absorb some of these gasses are being cut down and therefore adding to carbon dioxide increase. The toxicity of the air is absorbed into the warming oceans and killing marine life and this I think is horrific. I also was unaware of the fact that scientists with bad degrees are being paid to tell the general public that globalwarming is human caused, when unanimously it is decided among all scientists that there is no proof it isn’t human caused. Of course these scientists are being paid by none other than the big money makers that only want their products to be sold or used to make a profit.
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The greenhouse effect, in environmental science, is a popular term for
the effect that certain variable constituents of the Earth's lower atmosphere
have on surface temperatures. It has been known since 1896 that Earth has been
warmed by a blanket of gasses (This is called the "greenhouse effect."). The
gases--water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4)--keep ground
temperatures at a global average of about 15 degrees C (60 degrees F). Without
them the average would be below the freezing point of water. The gases have
this effect because as incoming solar radiation strikes the surface, the surface
gives off infrared radiation, or heat, that the gases trap and keep near ground
level. The effect is comparable to the way in which a greenhouse traps heat,
hence the term. Environmental scientists are concerned that changes in the
variable contents of the atmosphere--particularly changes caused by human
activities--could cause the Earth's surface to warm up to a dangerous degree.
Since 1850 there has been a mean rise in global temperature of approximately 1°
C (approximately 1.8° F). Even a limited rise in average surface temperature
might lead to at least partial melting of the polar icecaps and hence a major
rise in sea level, along with other severe environmental disturbances. An
example of a runaway greenhouse effect is Earth's near-twin planetary neighbor
Venus. Because of...

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What is globalwarming: An overall warming of the planet based on average temperature over the entire surface. It refers to the increasing average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its probable continuation. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal and scientists are more than 90% certain that most of it is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels.
Causes of globalwarming: The causes are mainly from us the human race and the effects on us will be severe.
* Greenhouse gases: The greenhouse effect is the procedure by which absorption and emission of infrared radiation by gases in the atmosphere warm a planet's lower atmosphere and surface. The major greenhouse gases are water vapor which causes about 36–70% of the greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide (CO2) which causes 9–26%, methane (CH4) which...

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The effects of globalwarming have been increasing significantly for the past decades. Climate change, devastation of the ecosystem, water contamination, melting ice over Arctic and Antarctic regions, negative impacts in the agricultural sector are just the problems caused by globalwarming. The reason behind this is human activities that lead to release of greenhouse gases. The concentration of greenhouse gases has significantly increased since 20th century. Some Scientists believe that there is an increase of 0.5 Celsius in earth’s temperature since 1900 and will continue to increase. The year 1990 was said to be the hottest year in the last century.
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